TV Ratings: MOST VALUABLE Shows and Top Rookies of the 2024-25 Season

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If there was a theme coming out of May’s Upfronts, It’s That Everyone-from Long-Standing Broadcast Networks to New (Ish) Streaming Players-Wants A Piece of the Televized Sports Business. NBC is Going All In on It Its New Nba Contract Next Season, Netflix and YouTube Will Have Exclusive NFL Games, and there is Semingly a Sports Documentary for Ever.

While Live Sports Are Top of Mind for Everyone and The NFL (Still and Seemingly Forever) Rules Broadcast Ratings, Viewers ALSO SPENT A TIME IN THE 2024-25 SEASON WITH DRAMAS, ComEDs. Several First-Year Shows Became Hits this Season (Hello, Matlock, High Potential an Adalescence), While Returning Veterans Proved Their in Big Ways (Looking at You, Reacher).

With the September-to-May Season Now Wrapped, Here’s A Look at the MOST VALUBLE PLAYERS, ROOKES OF THE YEAR-and some disappointing performers-at a Number of Networks.

(Seven-Day Linear Ratings Figures for the Season Are Are Through May 11; 35-Day Multi-Platform Numbers Are As of Late March.)

ABC Mvp and rookie of the year: High Potential. The ProCedural Starring Kaitlin Olson As A Highly Intelligent Cleance Woman-Turned-Police Consultant Is ABC’s No. 2 Show (Behind Monday Night Football) in nielsen’s linear rats. IT’s Also A Huge Show On Streaming, Tying for Second Place Among All Network Series in Cross-Platform, 35-Day Rathings with More than 16 Million Viewers per Episode.

MOST IMPROVED: Will Trent. In it third year, the show have grown every season so far in linear rats; ITS SEVEN-DAY AUDIENCE BEFORE STREAMING IS UP by About 3 Percent Year to Year at 6.82 Million Viewers. Across All Platforms Over 35 Days, Will Trent Grows to 11.6 Million Viewers, Ranking 17th Among All Original Series (Including Streaming Shows) for the Season.

In a slump: the Bachelor Franchise. In the Fall, The Golden Bachelorette Fell Well Short of The Golden Bachelor ‘s Ratings from 2023, and the most recent Bachelor Season Is Also Down by Double Digits Among Both All Viewers and Adults 18-49. Amid Off-Camera Turmoil, ABC Scrappmed This Summer’s Edition of The Bachelorette and currently doesn’t have The Bachelor On Its Lineup for 2025-26 (Thought Bachelor in Paradise and Aecond Golden Bachelor Season Are on Deck for Summer and Fall).

Apple TV+ MVP: Severance. Three Years Between Seasons is a Loooong Time, But The Show’s Audience Was More Than Ready. The Mind-Bending Drama Delivered Apple TV+’s Best Performance for a Series Since TED LASSO in 2023, Staying in Nielsen’s Top 10 Original Streaming Series Rankings for All 10 weeks of Itson (and One More After It Ended).

Rookie of the Year (?): The Studio. This is admittedly a vibes-Based pickle. The Movie-Business Comedy Starring and CO-CREATED BY SETH ROGEN HAS STRONG REVIEWS AND A DEVOTED AUDUCE WITHIN Share any Viewing Data for Its Shows).

CBS MVP: Tracker. The Second-Year Series Starring Justin Hartley Has Finized First Among All Network Shows (Excluding Sports) in Both of Its Seasons. In 2024-25, is the only non-Sports Broadcast Show to Reach 10 Million Viewers Before Streaming (IT’s at 10.97 Million). FIVE WEEKS OF CROSS-PLATFORM VIEWING PUSHES ITS TOTAL TO 17.5 MILLION Viewers.

Rookies of the year: Matlock an Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. The Kathy Bates-Led Matlock Started Big and Never Really Faded, Clocking Better than 16 Million Cross-Platform Viewers for the Season. Georgie & Mandya spinoff of Young Sheldon and The Third Show in the Ever-Expanding Big Bang Theory Universe, Drew 12.1 Million Multi-Platform Viewers, Tying Is Thursday Night Lead-Out, Ghostsas the most-watched Comedies on Broadcast or Cable.

Cap casualties: The EQUALIZER, FBI: International an FBI: MOST WANTED. By Ratings Alone, All Three Shows Wound Be No-Brainer Pickups at Networks Other than CBS. But The Network Routinely Has the MOST-WATCHED CANCELED SERIES EACH YEAR as it look to save where it and periodically freshen up it prymetime scredule; this year, The equalizer and the two Fbi Spinoffs have that unfortunate distinction.

Disney+ MVP: Bluey. The Show that has legions of American Kids Saying “Nawr” is not a Disney+ Original, But It Is Unquestionable A Streaming Juggernaut. The Australian Import Was Far and Away The Most Streamed Series of 2024 in the United States and Is Holding Onto Title So Far in 2025. Bluey Is on a 134-Week Streak on the Nielsen Streaming Charts, Having Last Fallen Outside the Top 10 in September 2022.

Crunch Time Performer: Andor. The best-reviewed Star Wars Series Also Notched A Series High in Viewing Time for The Week of Its Season Two Premiere in Late April (The Last Week for Whoaming Data Is Available). IT’s A NEEDED BOOST FOR ONE OF Disney+’S SIGNATURE FRANCHISES, BECAUSE…

In a slump: Marvel and Star Wars. Before AndorIT HAD BEEN A RUGH Season for Marvel and Star Wars Shows on Disney+. Agatha All Along Made Nielsen’s List of Top Original Streaming Shows Several Times and Spiked in the Week of Itlele, But Star Wars: Skeleton Cww an Daredevil: Born Again Both Failed to Chart During their Runs, and the Animated Marvel Show What if…? Made It Only Once Dringing Its Third Season.

Fox Mvp and rookie of the year: Doc. The Medical Drama Starring Molly Parker Nearly Doubled Its Audence (2.33 Million to 4.6 Million Viewers) Over Seven Days in Linear Ratings, Then Added a Few Million More Viewers With. In renewing the Series in February, Fox Said the Premiere Episode Had Drawn in Some 16 Million Viewers, Including on-Air Repeats, Streaming And Other Delayed Viewing Over Six Weeks.

Rookie Roster Cut: Rescue: Hi-Surf. Fox Placed A Big Bet On the Hawaii-Set Drama About Lifeguards, Giving IT A Post-Nfl Premiere in September and Initial Tabbing It For the Audence After The Show Got Off to A Soft Start, However, The Network Pulled It Off of Super Bowl Sunday (The Floor Aired there Institute). Hi-Surf WAS CANCELED IN EARLY MAY.

HBO/MAX MVP: The White Lotus. Season Three of Mike White’s Chronicle of Overprivileged Americans Visiting the Five-Star Resort Chain/Homicide Magnet Set A String of Series Bests Troughout Its Run. IT HAD The Show’s Most-Watched Premiere and Finale to Date, with Several Other First-Night Highs in Between. As of the day after its april 6 Finale, Season Three Was AVERAGING 16 MILLION CROSS-PLATFORM Viewers, A Number That Has Only Grown Since. HBO MEASURES Cross-Platform Viewing for Its Shows Over 90 Days; The Finale Marked Day 49 of that period.

Rookie of the Year: The Pitt. Max’s Real-Time Hospital Drama Was Well-Review and Seemed to Gater Word-of-Mouth-Momentum Throughout Its 15-Episode Season (Which Is Now Anna). The Final Four Weeks of the Season – Plus One More After The Finale – Made Nielsen’s Streaming Chart, with a High of 852 Million Minutes The Week Itlele DEBUTED.

Hulu MVPS: Only Murders in the Building an The Handmaid’s Tale. Omitb HAS BEEN HULUS CONSISTENT ORIGinal Series, Charting Nearly Every Week It Has DEBUTED ORIGinal Episodes Across Its Four Seasons. Season Four Last Fall Was No Different, Ranking in Nielsen’s Top 10 Original Streaming Shows for 11 Straight Weeks. The Handmaid’s TaleMeanwhile, Had A Strong Start to ITS Final Season, AVERAGING 788 Million Viewing Minutes Over ITS FIRST Three Weeks – A 42 Percent Improvement Over The Same Time for Season Fi.

Rookie of the Year: Paradise. The Thriller from Creator Dan Foglman Charted All Six Weeks It Released Episodes and Had A Very Consistent Run. IT DREW BETWEEN 476 Million and 566 Million Minutes of Watch Time for The FIRST FIVE FIVE weeks before a Finale-Week Jump to 705 Million.

Bench Performers: Library Series. Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers an The RokieAll of Wich Have Extensive Catalogs, Are Near-Connestant Presences in the Weekly Streaming Top 10 for Acquired Series. SO are several shows hulu shares with Other Streamers, Including Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix) and LAW & ORDER: SVU (Peacock).

NBC MVP: Sunday Night Football. This is not a surprise pick in any way, but is impossible not to bestow this hoonor on Snf. The Weekly NFL Showcase Was The MOST-WATCHED PRIMETIME Network Series for the 14th Straight Season-The Longgest Such Streak Since the Beginning of Nielsen’s Primetime CHARTS 75 YEARS AGO. Across NBC and Peacock, Sunday Night Football Awed 21.6 Million Viewers this Season.

Rookie of the Year: HAPPY’S PLACE. Friday Night is Not Usual the Play You’d Expect A Rathings Success Story, But The Night Is Not The Dead Zone It ONCE WAS, AND AND HAPPY’S PLACE Built A Solid Audience AFter NBC HAD MADE QUiet Efforts to Establish a Comedy Block there in recent seasons. Happy’s Place, Starring Reba Mcentire and Belissa Escobedo, Drew a Solid 4.54 Million Viewers Before Streaming, Making It An Easy Renewal.

Hall of Fame: Dick Wolf. The MEGA-PRODUCER’S TRACK RECORD IS UNIMPEACHable, and Even Deep, Deep Into The Life of His Chicago an LAW & ORDER Franchises, they’re still delivering. After Sunday Night FootballFIVE OF NBC’s Seven MOST-WATCHED SHOWS Come from Wolf (The Two Weekly Editions of The voice Are The Others). Between N, The Five Series Have Produced A Staggering 1.811 Episodes to Date.

Netflix MVP: Squid Game. Season Two of the Korean Hit Had the Two Biggest Streaming Weeks of the Season – 4.92 Billion and 4.6 Billion Minutes in Late December and Early January. IT AVERGED 27.1 Million Viewers Over 35 Days, Accounting To Nielsen, The Most for Any Show on Any Platform in 2024-25 (and a Likely Blockbuster Final Season Set For Late June).

Rookies of the year: Adalescence, Nobody Wants This an The Resident. AdalescenceThe Intense British Miniseries with Each Episode Unfolding in a Single Shot, Ranks Second on Nielsen’s Cross-Platform List for the Season With 19 Million Viewers Over 35 Days. On the Other End of the Tonal Spectrum, Rom-Com Nobody Wants This Led A Strong Netflix Comedy Roster With 15.2 Million Viewers Over Five Weeks. The Resident Has Shown More Staying Power in the Weekly Streaming Rankings Than Either of Those Shows, However. It’s Charted for Six Straight Weeks-Longer Than Any Other First-Year Netflix Show Since September.

Paramount+/Showtime MVP: Taylor Sheridan. Four of the Prolific Creator and ShowRunner’s Paramount+ Series – Landman, 1923, Tulsa King an Lioness – SPent Multiple weeks on the streaming charts this season. No Other Producer Cans Lay Claim to Having Such A Tight Grip on the Top of A Single Streamer’s Rankings. Oh, and The Show That Kickstarted Sheridan and Paramount’s Mutulaly Lucorative Relationship, YellowstoneAlso Had A Record-Breaking Season on Cable’s Paramount Network.

Rookie of the Year: Landman. Sheridan’s Series About the West Texas Oil Business, Starring Billy Bob Thornn, Was The First Paramount+ Show to Draw More More A Billion Viewing Minutes in a Single Week (1923 Followed Suitr in the Season). The Show Peaked With 1.38 Billion Minutes in the Week Leading Up To Its Season Finale.

MOST IMPROVED: Yellowjackets. After Not Cracking The Streaming Top 10 at All During it Season in 2023, The Showtime Drama Did So Four Times in Season Three. The Series Also Scored Its Most-Watched Season Finale to Date Worldwide.

Peacock MVP: The Traitors. The Competition Show Hosted by alan Cumming Had Its Biggest USA SEASON SO FAR, RACKING UP CONSIDERABLY MORE Viewing Time Season Two in Early 2024. Marked The Five Biggest Weeks in Itstory.

Rookie of the Year: The day of the jackal. The Thriller Starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch Never Hit The Top 10 Of The Nielsen Streaming Charts, But It Kept Acumulating Viewers to The Point Wheer Where-FITAC. Streamer Says.

Prime Video MVP: Reacher. The Series About A Big Man (Played by Alan Ritchson) have a big impact on the Streaming Landscape with it. The Show Awed 18.1 Million Viewers Over 35 Days and SPENT Nine Consecutive Weeks in The Top 10.

Rookies of the year: Beast Games an Cross. Jimmy “Mrbeast” Donaldson Broughtus of His Massive YouTube Following to Prime Video With Beast Games, A competition show that Charted For Seven Weeks and isone of the PLATF Shows-Earning It A Two-Season Renewal. Cross, Based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross Novels and Starring ALDIS HODGE, HAD TWO HUGE WEEKS AFTER ITS BINGE RELEASE IN NOVEMber, Justify An Early Pickup of Season.